If they weren't locked into a contract, they wouldn't have to sue over it.
Most purchases can be returned when the product doesn't work as advertised. Usually this is because the store has a return policy to keep their customers happy, but some of the time it's the law.
In this case, there not only isn't a policy like that, there's a contract guaranteeing that you have to -continue- paying for it.
So you want to work for a company that has incompetent employees? Are you sure you should be lying in interviews and hoping to get the company that can't even hire people properly?
And how did they get this count? With the data changing so rapidly, they have no metric with which to measure how many CDs each person bought. They don't know that 17 million quit buying CDs, and they don't know that only 8 million started buying tracks.
It could -easily- be that the 17 million who no longer buy CDs now buy twice as many single song MP3s as they used to buy CDs.
Indeed. I spent a lot of time turning mediocre weapons into fearsome tools of destruction. There were definitely combinations that were a lot better than others.
Not only that, but for Google to index it, Google had to know it was there! That means that either someone manually added that URL to Google, or it was linked from somewhere at some point.
Google isn't magic, and it isn't the source of the problem.
And NoScript. And greasemonkey. And GMail Manager. And... The list goes on and on and on... Any one of my 'necessary' plugins makes Firefox more desirable than any other browser.
Unfortunately, most people are more easily swayed by emotion than you are.
I agree, I followed the instructions given in the trial. When evidence was mentioned, then withdrawn because it wasn't relevant, the jury as a whole ignored it. At least, they appeared to... I know I did what we were told. (In this case, the 'evidence' would have leaned towards a guilty verdict, and we came up with a unanimous not-guilty right off.)
But not everyone is able to use logic rather than emotion. Some people feel a need to convict someone for a crime without ever dealing with the fact that it might not be -that- person who did it... You can't even get it through their skulls that the guilty person would still be out there!
So they try to limit the information and give those people a chance of actually thinking logically, instead of emotionally.
I agree that it would be much better if things could just be done right... But we're dealing with humans here.
You're joking, but having realistic actions like teabagging a defeated corpse brings a lot more illusion of reality than a lot of the other stuff they do.
As for the article, I saw a lot of 'dumbing down' and 'intelligent mistakes'... But I saw absolutely nothing about 'personality'. -That- is what makes an AI seem real.
Take the poker example. If you just create 3 levels of players, bad, good, and perfect... There's no personality.
Instead, you make different players: Cardsharp, timid bets, reckless bets, etc. In other words, you model the AIs after real player types.
In other words, you're trying to pass the poker Turing test with this AI.
There's a Japanese Anime/Light Novel called 'Dennou Coil' or 'Cyber Coil'. It's about kids that have grown up with glasses that are their link to the network. It lets them buy virtual items of all sorts, including pets and toys. They virtual items obviously can't interact with real objects, but they can react with other players (especially the glasses of the other players) and virtual objects. And they can make phone calls using the glasses by just making a phone shape with their hand, or call up a virtual keyboard and monitor for direct input/programming.
Yes, you'll still look a little silly to anyone not wearing the glasses. But once there are enough people doing it, it ceases to look funny. Bluetooth headsets are proof of this. 15 years ago, you'd look like you were talking to yourself. Now, everyone assumes they can't see your earpiece.
Also, having phone capabilities in the glasses will speed adaption greatly, even for those who don't normally wear glasses.
I agree. I was actually quite happy back at 3MP. 12MP is way, way more than I need.
Especially since the 7+MP cameras I've seen take really crappy photos, regardless of lighting. Zoom in and the color is almost random from 1 pixel to the next, instead of the smooth gradient that you expect.
I'd much rather have a high-quality low-MP camera than the opposite.
Once I find a cheap one, I know what my next camera will be.
Between that and people that never check their account, this is ridiculous. It should never count as having served them the papers.
I have countless accounts on various systems that I've set to 'do not email me' when I receive a new instant message simply because I had a few accounts that would get SPAM. It's now my default setting on new sites I join. In other words, I whitelist, not blacklist.
So let's get this right: We are now classifying out own treaties and laws as 'national security risks' so that even if we -wanted- to follow the law, we can't.
Wow. You know, until now, I never -truly- believed everyone that was screaming that we were making laws to make sure people broke them. With this, how can I refute it?
Office Depot does not pay commissions. Instead, they just threaten your job if you don't sell enough. Since the employees are easy replaceable, even at near-minimum-wage, they don't have to care.
Yes, I used to work there as a 'customer service representative' (or some stupid title) and I was told 'never lie', etc etc... And then told that if I didn't sell enough plans there would be problems.
I refused to lie and refused to even -try- to sell the plans to people who didn't want them. Most of the time, I didn't even mention them. The only way I survived was that I was the -only- employee with any actual computer knowledge. I could actually fix computers where others couldn't even name the parts if they weren't labeled. (Okay, there were a couple that could install RAM, if they -had- to.)
They don't just push those plans, though. They also push overpriced ink, paper, cords, power strips... Anything and everything to add money to that sale.
Obviously, the employees hate that shit as much as the customers do. I'm not surprised that they've resorted to lying directly from management to the customer to try to sell the extras.
The one article claims a really odd commission system... While it wasn't in effect when I was there, it was the kind of bullshit they'd pull, so it might be true. They're really, really cheap though, so I seriously doubt it's true.
This makes no sense. You can -already- tell where someone was sitting from the video itself. The angle of the image, the angle of the top/botton and sides of the screen, etc. They don't even need to do anything extra.
This is either bullshit or just some cockamamie plan that would never have made it to market anyhow.
Exactly. I see ads on TV for cars that say '31mpg' and are advertising it like it's amazing. My 1997 Cavalier gets that. Actually gets it, not just advertises it!
Maybe, just maybe, not everyone hates it. Maybe it's just a vocal minority that hates it. Maybe the 'community' -is- getting input and the problem is that you are going against the community, not them.
"And why the fsck does a freakin' DOCUMENT have scripting in it? I can understand form elements but not something akin to shell scripting."
Can I assume that you're upset about HTML having all this stupid Javascript stuff, too? I mean, it's just for displaying and linking to information. It doesn't need 'something akin to shell scripting'.
Yeah, that's my thought every time someone brings up a 'secure' network that relies on only talking to your friends on it. There are already -tons- of ways to get that file from someone you know. The problem that P2P solves is getting a particular file from a stranger.
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If they weren't locked into a contract, they wouldn't have to sue over it.
Most purchases can be returned when the product doesn't work as advertised. Usually this is because the store has a return policy to keep their customers happy, but some of the time it's the law.
In this case, there not only isn't a policy like that, there's a contract guaranteeing that you have to -continue- paying for it.
So you want to work for a company that has incompetent employees? Are you sure you should be lying in interviews and hoping to get the company that can't even hire people properly?
And how did they get this count? With the data changing so rapidly, they have no metric with which to measure how many CDs each person bought. They don't know that 17 million quit buying CDs, and they don't know that only 8 million started buying tracks.
It could -easily- be that the 17 million who no longer buy CDs now buy twice as many single song MP3s as they used to buy CDs.
Indeed. I spent a lot of time turning mediocre weapons into fearsome tools of destruction. There were definitely combinations that were a lot better than others.
Not only that, but for Google to index it, Google had to know it was there! That means that either someone manually added that URL to Google, or it was linked from somewhere at some point.
Google isn't magic, and it isn't the source of the problem.
How can you be a rival when you don't even play on the same field?
It's ludicrous to think that Nintendo and Apple are rivals for downloadable apps.
And NoScript. And greasemonkey. And GMail Manager. And... The list goes on and on and on... Any one of my 'necessary' plugins makes Firefox more desirable than any other browser.
Unfortunately, most people are more easily swayed by emotion than you are.
I agree, I followed the instructions given in the trial. When evidence was mentioned, then withdrawn because it wasn't relevant, the jury as a whole ignored it. At least, they appeared to... I know I did what we were told. (In this case, the 'evidence' would have leaned towards a guilty verdict, and we came up with a unanimous not-guilty right off.)
But not everyone is able to use logic rather than emotion. Some people feel a need to convict someone for a crime without ever dealing with the fact that it might not be -that- person who did it... You can't even get it through their skulls that the guilty person would still be out there!
So they try to limit the information and give those people a chance of actually thinking logically, instead of emotionally.
I agree that it would be much better if things could just be done right... But we're dealing with humans here.
You're joking, but having realistic actions like teabagging a defeated corpse brings a lot more illusion of reality than a lot of the other stuff they do.
As for the article, I saw a lot of 'dumbing down' and 'intelligent mistakes' ... But I saw absolutely nothing about 'personality'. -That- is what makes an AI seem real.
Take the poker example. If you just create 3 levels of players, bad, good, and perfect... There's no personality.
Instead, you make different players: Cardsharp, timid bets, reckless bets, etc. In other words, you model the AIs after real player types.
In other words, you're trying to pass the poker Turing test with this AI.
There's a Japanese Anime/Light Novel called 'Dennou Coil' or 'Cyber Coil'. It's about kids that have grown up with glasses that are their link to the network. It lets them buy virtual items of all sorts, including pets and toys. They virtual items obviously can't interact with real objects, but they can react with other players (especially the glasses of the other players) and virtual objects. And they can make phone calls using the glasses by just making a phone shape with their hand, or call up a virtual keyboard and monitor for direct input/programming.
Yes, you'll still look a little silly to anyone not wearing the glasses. But once there are enough people doing it, it ceases to look funny. Bluetooth headsets are proof of this. 15 years ago, you'd look like you were talking to yourself. Now, everyone assumes they can't see your earpiece.
Also, having phone capabilities in the glasses will speed adaption greatly, even for those who don't normally wear glasses.
Make it Caturday and I think you'll have an internet-junky phenomenon on your hands!
I agree. I was actually quite happy back at 3MP. 12MP is way, way more than I need.
Especially since the 7+MP cameras I've seen take really crappy photos, regardless of lighting. Zoom in and the color is almost random from 1 pixel to the next, instead of the smooth gradient that you expect.
I'd much rather have a high-quality low-MP camera than the opposite.
Once I find a cheap one, I know what my next camera will be.
Between that and people that never check their account, this is ridiculous. It should never count as having served them the papers.
I have countless accounts on various systems that I've set to 'do not email me' when I receive a new instant message simply because I had a few accounts that would get SPAM. It's now my default setting on new sites I join. In other words, I whitelist, not blacklist.
So let's get this right: We are now classifying out own treaties and laws as 'national security risks' so that even if we -wanted- to follow the law, we can't.
Wow. You know, until now, I never -truly- believed everyone that was screaming that we were making laws to make sure people broke them. With this, how can I refute it?
To be 'over the limit' and legally drunk you don't have to be anywhere close to showing those symptoms.
Office Depot does not pay commissions. Instead, they just threaten your job if you don't sell enough. Since the employees are easy replaceable, even at near-minimum-wage, they don't have to care.
Yes, I used to work there as a 'customer service representative' (or some stupid title) and I was told 'never lie', etc etc... And then told that if I didn't sell enough plans there would be problems.
I refused to lie and refused to even -try- to sell the plans to people who didn't want them. Most of the time, I didn't even mention them. The only way I survived was that I was the -only- employee with any actual computer knowledge. I could actually fix computers where others couldn't even name the parts if they weren't labeled. (Okay, there were a couple that could install RAM, if they -had- to.)
They don't just push those plans, though. They also push overpriced ink, paper, cords, power strips... Anything and everything to add money to that sale.
Obviously, the employees hate that shit as much as the customers do. I'm not surprised that they've resorted to lying directly from management to the customer to try to sell the extras.
The one article claims a really odd commission system... While it wasn't in effect when I was there, it was the kind of bullshit they'd pull, so it might be true. They're really, really cheap though, so I seriously doubt it's true.
In South Korea? Are you an expert on S. Korean law now, too?
Heck, that's the advanced version. You can even just 'apt-get search'.
He also doesn't get that the command line utility is the -same thing-. Ugh.
Well, if he's trying to review from a 'clueless user' perspective, he's certainly on track.
Hence the quotes around "Fingerprint".
How do you find out about these deals? I Googled and found a few of the old ones, but don't see anywhere to find out about future ones as they happen?
This makes no sense. You can -already- tell where someone was sitting from the video itself. The angle of the image, the angle of the top/botton and sides of the screen, etc. They don't even need to do anything extra.
This is either bullshit or just some cockamamie plan that would never have made it to market anyhow.
Exactly. I see ads on TV for cars that say '31mpg' and are advertising it like it's amazing. My 1997 Cavalier gets that. Actually gets it, not just advertises it!
I loved it from the first time I saw it.
Maybe, just maybe, not everyone hates it. Maybe it's just a vocal minority that hates it. Maybe the 'community' -is- getting input and the problem is that you are going against the community, not them.
"And why the fsck does a freakin' DOCUMENT have scripting in it? I can understand form elements but not something akin to shell scripting."
Can I assume that you're upset about HTML having all this stupid Javascript stuff, too? I mean, it's just for displaying and linking to information. It doesn't need 'something akin to shell scripting'.
Yeah, that's my thought every time someone brings up a 'secure' network that relies on only talking to your friends on it. There are already -tons- of ways to get that file from someone you know. The problem that P2P solves is getting a particular file from a stranger.